An exciting opportunity for an experienced practitioner to join this partnership.

Our client has been building stronger families since 1869, and today works with over 45,000 families and children through 120 community based services. Thousands more are supported with financial assistance through education and welfare grants programmes.

They are delighted to be recruiting to the position of Young Carer’s Senior Practitioner in their well established Islington & Camden Young Carers Service. The service works with young carers and their families offering assessment, whole-family support and targeted groups to support in making longstanding positive change.

They are looking for a committed, self – driven, experienced Young Carers’ Senior Practitioner to assess the needs of young carers & their families and provide direct, individual and whole family support intervention though home based visits and using community & school settings. You will also engage young carers with positive activities to improve their emotional wellbeing and offer consultation, advice and outreach for professionals to assist them in identifying and supporting Young Carers locally (acting as lead contact for Families First Early Help Service).

About You:

You will be highly self-motivated, have excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate creatively and effectively with children and young people ranging from 5 to 18 years of age as well as adults with complex needs. You will have excellent communication and presentation skills and confidence in training and developing the skills of a range of professionals.

They are forward looking, ambitious and with a commitment to continuous improvement. They are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all they do and operate with mutual respect. If you share these values and behaviours and have the necessary skills then they look forward to hearing from you.

Appointments are subject to our client receiving an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service that they consider acceptable.

You may have experience of the following: Senior Support Worker, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, Social Work, Safeguarding, Support Worker, Service Delivery, Family Services, Senior Social Worker, Team Leader, Supervisor, Not For Profit, Community Support, Social Worker etc.

This vacancy is being advertised by Easy Web Recruitment, the UK’s leading Online Recruitment Agency. The services advertised by Easy Web Recruitment are those of an employment agency. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, or belief, and we confirm that we will gladly accept all applications.